Summary

Elon Musk allegedly installed an unauthorized server at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), gaining access to sensitive federal employee data, including Social Security numbers, home addresses, and medical histories.

Young, inexperienced staffers are reportedly using this access to target positions for removal, particularly DEI offices.

Security concerns have been raised, with fears of hacking and HIPAA violations.

Senior officials have been locked out of key systems, limiting oversight of DOGE’s actions, which could significantly impact the federal workforce.

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    22 hours ago

    Elon will use social security numbers to hire more Indians in the branches of government.

    I do have a question though, are employees of the United States Intelligence Community being affected by this?

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      21 hours ago

      Most definitely. The article mentioned USAJobs, which everyone goes through, including the CIA and the other alphabet agencies.

      I don’t know if the intelligence community does any sort of obfuscation for counterintelligence purposes (so that your job title isn’t [Spy Grade 4 - Stationed in Greenland] outward facing to OPM) but they’ll definitely have access to names and vitals for everyone in that system.

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        21 hours ago

        You can go on usajobs yourself…

        Descriptions are ridiculously vague and always have been.

        But actual spies would never be listed as “spy grade X” because in the system they’d be whatever the cover story is.

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          21 hours ago

          Elon was going through job titles before the election and whining about how they aren’t real jobs, the reasons for this obfuscation would easily get lost in the purge because no one who knows/cares is in a position to say anything

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            20 hours ago

            But they’re not going to be applying thru USA jobs in the first place, the obfuscation would be at the payroll processor if anywhere…

            Like, there’s just so much wrong shit being repeated by people with zero federal experience or even knowledge, that you can’t just assume everything else is true when someone just talks about one aspect that’s clearly wrong.